“EABER/SABER Newsletter September 2016

September, 2016

Tomoo Kikuchi

During this year’s G7 summit, Japan announced its vision of creating a LNG market to meet increasing energy demand. Natural resource markets are a foundation for trade and economic development. What is less well known is the close link between the natural resource markets and the currency markets.

Tomoo Kikuchi is a senior research fellow at the Centre on Asia and Globalisation, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy. Yohei Tanaka is an assistant manager at the America and Africa Project Division, INPEX, the Japan-based oil and gas exploration and production company.